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Alice, Jenny + Dale visited Al + Laura

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University of Alabama

Decor magazine, Spr Summer 2009 issue

Lea decorated the guest house

Two days of rain got the creek flowing again....

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Helen's camera; Elda, Avon Lake, Ione, Isaac's apartment

Family home at 187 Vinewood, Avon Lake, OH

John Runyan, retired teacher, Avon Lake HS

Ione Graves, Age 93

Dinner with Kayla + Jory + Dakota + Chris + Jill
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Isaac's loft apartment in Carrolton, GA at W.GA university.

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Brunch at IHOP
Dinner at Houston's

Visit with Marlene Springston
Gainesville, GA home

Saw fox, eagle, another fox and sunset over Lake Lanier

Dale's photos

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Photos by Karen Edwards

Seagrove Beach photos by Ines Ortiz Price

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Engagement: April 29, 2008
Kyle Manley + Halle Bargen

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The last major burn pile in the pasture

Visit with Myrt's family, Joyce + Paul in Concordia, walked the trail at Bethel, toured the sculpture park in Wichita (click on MORE ...more

below).
http://stubbornfacts.us/random/almost_forgotten_history
On July 19, 1958, several black teenagers, members of the local NAACP chapter, entered the downtown Dockum Drug Store (then the largest drug store chain in the state) and sat down at the lunch counter. They were ignored. They kept coming back and sitting at the counter, from before lunch through the dinner hour, at least twice a week for the next several weeks. They sat quietly, creating no disturbance, but refusing to leave without being served.

The store tried to wait them out by ignoring them. They kept coming back and sitting there, silently, day after day, waiting to be served. On one occasion three police officers tried to coerce and intimidate the teenagers to leave, and succeeded. But they came back, and the police did not return. They were breaking no law, only a store policy, and the store was not willing to challenge them directly.

A group of local white toughs came by trying to intimidate them. The police were called to break it up but left immediately without challenging the whites, saying they had instructions to keep their hands off. After an emergency phone call a group of local black men arrived, armed, to defend the protesters. The white youths retreated, leaving the store.

And the young people kept coming back and sitting there at the lunch counter, silently, day after day, waiting to be served.

They asked for help and support from the national NAACP, but the national organization refused to endorse or even acknowledge their actions. The confrontational tactic was against NAACP policy. The national newswires picked it up and the story went out on the national wire, but few papers ran it and it quickly vanished.

On August 11, while the early arrivals were sitting at the counter waiting for their friends to show, a white man around 40 walked in and looked at them for several minutes. Then he looked at the store manager, and said, simply, "Serve them. I'm losing too much money." He then walked back out. That man was the owner of the Dockum drug store chain.

That day the lawyer [Chester Lewis--see updates below] for the local NAACP branch called the store's state offices, and was told by the chain vice-president that "he had instructed all of his managers, clerks, etc., to serve all people without regard to race, creed or color." State-wide. They had won, completely. Their actions inspired others, and the sit-in movement spread to Oklahoma City. By the middle of 1959, the national NAACP was losing disaffected members for refusing to endorse the scattered but spreading sit-in protests, gave in, and sponsored the Greensboro sit-ins.

Nineteen months before the Greensboro sit-ins that have been credited with being the start of the civil rights sit-in movement, it really began at a downtown drug store in Wichita, Kansas. The Dockum sit-ins were largely ignored by the NAACP in their archives, probably out of embarrasment, and were unknown even to many civil rights historians. That error was corrected by the NAACP this summer.

Something important started there in Wichita near the corner of Broadway and Douglas. Those who started it were almost forgotten by history. Almost, but not quite. And today, on a small plaza tucked in between two buildings in downtown Wichita, Kansas is a sculpture of a lunch counter with several people sitting at it. It has no plaque to explain it. Some day soon, it will.

http://www.kansastravel.org/douglasavenuesculptures.htm
A recreation of a dimestore counter, placed in Lewis Reflection Square Park, which was once the site of a F. W. Woolworth store. Coincidentally, an event in the integration of the Wichita area happened at the nearby Dockum Drug Store in 1958. This sculpture was not built to specifically memorialize that incident, but the Georgia Gerber says that "the black man and his grandson were placed at the counter as an intentional acknowledgment of the Dockum Drug Store sit-ins and the peaceful integration it brought about."

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Ines, Bernie, Iris, Cecilia, Daniela, Peter

On their way to Tennessee

Alice's horses and flowers

Helen traveled to Atlanta, Washington DC, Lancaster PA

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Fountain ideas

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Budget Rental Car: Who knew?

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CD 831258

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CD 796998 slide scans

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Born April 3, 2007 to Sky Sadie

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Possible prints for memorial service

Scanned slides of Eldon + Helen wedding

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Guarnieri siblings met at Duck Lake June 23-24, 2006 to scatter Dorothy + Glen's ashes at the lake where they courted as teenagers...

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Replaced the counter with an adjustable, moveable table

After the dryer delivery

At Mo Mo Ya

Mo Mo Ya Japanese Restaurant

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Kim + Karen Edwards' Annual Labor Day Picnic + Campout

Dale's visit to Elyria, Avon Lake, Wadsworth

Halle and Krista at GA State University

Barbara and Ausker Morris

On her way from Austin to DC

Jenny + Lea visited Alice + Ann

Lea's Birthday party

50th wedding anniversary